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What's the deal with your nickname? How did you get it? If your nickname is self-explanatory, then tell everyone when you first started using the internet, and what was the first thing that made you say "wow, this isn't just a place for freaks after all?" Was it a website? Was it an email from a long-lost friend? Go on, spill it.

I'm a history of science nerd, so my name relates to the apocryphal story about Kekule dreaming the aromatic bonding structure of benzene:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_August_Kekul%C3%A9_von_Stradonitz